Lily Collins Too Lively for Evil Dead Remake

It looked like Fede Alvarez’s remake of Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead was trucking along smoothly but the film’s leading lady, Lily Collins, has left the project so the search for a new lead begins.

Apparently, Collins’ schedule is a little too lively because she reportedly had to drop out of the reboot of the Bruce Campbell cult classic because of scheduling issues. She also has the lead in the adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments so things might have started to look a bit too tight when the schedules were compared to each other.

There’s no word yet on who might now step into the role but there are probably plenty of people willing to step up because The Evil Dead has a cult following that simply can’t be denied. There’s also a whole new generation just waiting to be introduced to the Evil Dead experience, although I’m one of those that believes you can’t get the full experience without seeing Bruce Campbell in action.

If everything continues to go as planned, The Evil Dead is expected to arrive in theaters on April 12, 2013. In the meantime, you can still see Collins in the upcoming Snow White tale, Mirror, Mirror.